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Straight to the point, names and links to the games in the description, the only way this video could be better is having the timestamps as well, otherwise it's already beating most similar videos
We went from a RTS drought to an over saturation. Would be good to have a series about RTS releases over the last 1-2 years that are doing well. I don't have time to try or keep up with everything but would like a see a tldr of what's doing well.
Oversaturation is one thing... but there is really little meaningful innovation. It boils down to SC II, Command and Conquer, Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation copycats, with occasional Company of Heroes or Age of Empires thrown here and there. And no... Adding "deck building" or "super power to shift the balance" is no innovation, it is a single mechanic more fitting a single game mode - a gimmick. My guess is... most of those will fade into obscurity so fast we won't even notice many of their releases.
12:30 Eyes of War misses the best example of that genre, I feel. Sure you got Natural Selection/ Sillica/Tremulus/Savage, but for the more singleplayer skirmish and that historic setting I cannot recommend 'Rise & Fall: Civilisations at War' enough. It, too, had a 'control your hero' mode, and it had neat mechanics like transport ships not making your units disappear, but having them walk on top and fight during boarding actions
I was thinking of Rise and Fall as well. It was a cool idea, but unfortunately the game didn't have much of an impact at its time and is mostly forgotten today. I still have the demo CD, which was given away for free at an electronic store, lying somewhere next to my PC.
I got into Creeper World some years ago, it's a great singleplayer title that ends up being an unusual mix of RTS and tower defense, and while it's often played like a turtle there's ways to speed through missions as well. Creeper World 3 is probably the best entry points in the series, or Particle Fleet: Emergence as a spaceship spin-off. A great comfy turtling series. Somehow it's had more entries than most RTS franchises ever manage and got its start long ago as Flash games. One of the notable features of the series is the built-in map creation, sharing, and browsing tools with pretty powerful scripting. It's allowed for a wide variety of community maps that even introduce their own game modes. There's even a level generator for endless play, though it doesn't compare to the campaigns.
The custom maps people have made really keep me coming back to this series. As well as the normal tower defence maps there's puzzle games, maps where you play as the Creeper itself and paint the map, and in Creeper World 4 there's First Person Shooter maps because it finally went 3D. Definitely recommend giving the series a look if you haven't tried any of them before.
What I don't like about Dino Lords is, that it won't be a classical RTS, but you play your lord and command your troops like in the Overlord games. About Age or Respair... They are using many many many assets of existing Stronghold games, like the quarry, grannary, church and especially the mill etc.
I would definitely include Sea Power, a game that recently entered early access. It's a super realistic tactical naval simulator set in the cold war. Sure, you "only" control a carrier group, but once a big NATO carrier deploys all its full complement of aircraft, there is more than enough going on. While the game is definitely early in its early access phase, battles get very tense.
I’m still waiting for a true successor to the original Star Trek Armada, I just want a space game without the use of full 3D maps, just give me a top down view and let me smash fleets of ships into each other.
The problem with the new homeworld games that look great is customization, I mean, we don't have time for this in an RTS, I barely have time to play and don't want to spend hours is customization, I want to have cool units creates by devs like any other RTS.
I think an RTS where you could predesign ships would be amazing. Then at high skill levels you could try to make modifications on the fly to counter opponents, I like the idea.
I hope they would take a risk by making Age of Empires 5 set in the 1870s - 1970s era with the subtitle End of Empires, fulfilling the one concept art they had when the original 3 was in development. This era would demand a different gameplay from 2, 3, and 4, so it wouldn't necessarily compete with themselves.
Pretty impressive list for a genre that has been dormant for years until recently... Will any of those have enough success for the mainstream to notice though ? We'll see
What about Front Edge, you can already try it(at least demo variant) in Russian VK Games. The game is playing pretty well now, so I think a release in the Q1 2025 is quite likely
In the Tempest Rising Demo right now. It’s just not ready. There are just so many conflicting design issues right now. It needs another 6 months or a year to figure out what it wants to be.
@@commanderwookiecopc806 Interesting. So they're another human faction? Not gonna lie, I thought the 3rd Faction was going to be an alien one, like the Scrin in C&C Tiberium Wars/Kane's Wrath.
I hope some of these games have good single player/co op campaigns. I know many people like multiplayer but a good campaign is ESSENTIAL to a good RTS imo. Most recent RTS i played was Terminator Dark fate and its campaign was hella fun .
14:29 I've got a really good feeling that they will make a definitive edition of crusader too. From a pure speculative point of view, they have all the reasons to continue the trend :)
Have you seen Dawn of War 3 and Company of Heroes 3? Yikes is all I can say. I “demo”-ed CoH3 and uninstalled it after a few minutes. Had a truck with a MG like 5cm in front of infantry, the infantry took almost no damage… They should’ve just been honest and made a mobile game, like they clearly wanted to.
"If I do say so myself" is often used to mitigate sounding arrogant. You can't say that about something you had no part in. It's the same thing with people dedicating songs they haven't written or performed to others... It sounds dumb.
One I'm excited for is Kaiserpunk, coming early 2025. Looks like an ANNO style game with really in depth civilisation and economy gameplay, and the combat looks sick too
So, falling frontier kind of reminds me of Nexus: The Jupiter Incident based on the footage. Now there's a great game that I wish could have a followup. I backed the kickstarter for a sequel back in the day, but it never reached its goal.
I knew of a good few of them buts its always nice to see new ones or be reminded of the older ones on my wishlist. I always appreciate the AoE 1 music at the end it makes my memberberries happy. On a side note i would like to see a 7th Legion and Ground Control remaster some day.
Your section on Eyes of War makes me curious if you've ever covered Executive Assault 1 & 2. Perhaps not masterpieces, I nonetheless think they've both done the "commander and soldier" thing pretty well.
Awesome video! I'll have to check out some of these! You should do a video on Rise of Legends, I feel like no one talks about that one. Thanks for the shout out! -Tank
A Total War Star Wars game ? I never had any interest in any Total War games and have little interest with Star Wars but this ? This might be the time I have an interest in the game. Hope to learn more soon..
I already bought the remake of warcraft 1. The new character models look great but the more i looked at the models in the dungeon maps the more they looked out of place. They added QOL improvements like selecting 12 units at one and being able to use the right mouse button. But it's some little things they took away. The animations in the mission briefings, you saw the orc cleaning his blade or the wizard moving his moustache. Gone. The 3D popup maps to represent every mission. Gone. Always online connectivity to play. Sucks Sorry Zade, i just needed to rant.
I personally wouldn't buy Industrial Annihilation after the forced upgrade deal they tried on steam (Edit: with Planetary Annihilation). Nothing like a paid patch in order to continue to receive updates.
Are any of these StarCraft style RTS games other than Zerospace? I played StarCraft 2 for probably 20,000 hours, getting Master rank with Terran was probably my proudest video game achievement, and I replay the campaign once every year or so. I'm so sad that Stormgate looks like it is just going to be more soulless live service slop, especially considering how great StarCraft 2 is. I'm starved for a StarCraft style RTS that is made by people that really love the genre and that specific style of RTS, but also want to inject some new ideas and ways to have fun into the game.
i kinda like beyond all reason but theres alot of work they need to do for 1 thing the sound design isnt that good there are no unit move sounds or no unit vioceovers i feel supcom is still better
Taking a pass until I see the price points ratten reich is still a big let down. Also the story breakers being shown from betas from many of your titles is killing the buzz for me. Also the westwood cloning is getting old bro.
There is hope for Industrial Annihilation because this time around Nate Simpson and friends shouldn't be involved, hopefully he went on to finish #NonPlayer...
I'll be honest... With very few exceptions... it is feels stale. It boils down to SC II, Command and Conquer, Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation copycats, with occasional Company of Heroes or Age of Empires or a space RTS thrown here and there. And no... Adding "deck building" or "super power to shift the balance" is no innovation, it is a single mechanic more fitting a single game mode - a gimmick. My guess is... most of those will fade into obscurity so fast we won't even notice many of their releases. Also - I didn't delve into this TOO much, but I wonder how many of those will fall into "multiplayer focus" trap.
I will never buy anything from Blizzard anymore. I will be playing the original WC games on GOG and download whatever WCIII version I want. I will never touch the abomination that is Reforged.
i would love a video about era one Ratten Reich was one of the worst Demos i ever playd i am not honst if they can safe it no word about the new anno game?
Ratten Reich is sadly all Style over substance. The Game is a sad excuse for a puzzle game that barely works. The Art Team focuses on creating Soft Porn of Rats with big Tits and overall the Idea of it is what carrys it. Look at the Models, the Artwork and read the lore. Dont. Play. The. "Game". Judging by what they achieved in literal years, it will take at least 4 more years for it to be considered a game worth any money.
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Empire Earth was my life for a solid year, glad it's getting a spiritual successor.
Straight to the point, names and links to the games in the description, the only way this video could be better is having the timestamps as well, otherwise it's already beating most similar videos
TRUE I'll add those ♥️
Personally I would love it to be mentioned in the video if the game is Singleplayer only. Other than that I agree with your comment
I can only agree :) some sort of grouping would also be great i.e. starting with all the C&C clones for a better overview
The first game that I thought of when I first saw Dino Lords was Paraworld, anyone else remember that?
Heck yes mate, loved Paraworld.
yea same
We went from a RTS drought to an over saturation.
Would be good to have a series about RTS releases over the last 1-2 years that are doing well. I don't have time to try or keep up with everything but would like a see a tldr of what's doing well.
The question is if any of these games will actually be good.
@@commanderwookiecopc806I'm sure a few of them will. One or two might even be truly great.
That's a gret idea for a series. Basically which of the many promising RTS games coming out over the past few years have been 'success stories'!
@@commanderwookiecopc806 About half are complete flops with about another 25% or so just barely hitting the "it's alright" area.
Oversaturation is one thing... but there is really little meaningful innovation.
It boils down to SC II, Command and Conquer, Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation copycats, with occasional Company of Heroes or Age of Empires thrown here and there.
And no... Adding "deck building" or "super power to shift the balance" is no innovation, it is a single mechanic more fitting a single game mode - a gimmick.
My guess is... most of those will fade into obscurity so fast we won't even notice many of their releases.
Yes it's true: The best part of Planetary Annihilation IS the soundtrack. I take solace in the fact I helped Kickstart a kick-ass soundtrack...
12:30 Eyes of War misses the best example of that genre, I feel. Sure you got Natural Selection/ Sillica/Tremulus/Savage, but for the more singleplayer skirmish and that historic setting I cannot recommend 'Rise & Fall: Civilisations at War' enough. It, too, had a 'control your hero' mode, and it had neat mechanics like transport ships not making your units disappear, but having them walk on top and fight during boarding actions
I was thinking of Rise and Fall as well. It was a cool idea, but unfortunately the game didn't have much of an impact at its time and is mostly forgotten today. I still have the demo CD, which was given away for free at an electronic store, lying somewhere next to my PC.
The entire age of empires series has been remastered, that could only mean one thing.
Its time for Rise of nations and Rise of Legends to shine
RISE OF LEGENDS, *PLEASE!!* 🙏
I still can't conceive why that game is not on Steam!
Stronghold legends was good too @@MrDibara
I'm surprised Dying Breed, another MicroProse RTS didn't get mentioned. It's another C&C like but channeling the original Tiberian Dawn
I got into Creeper World some years ago, it's a great singleplayer title that ends up being an unusual mix of RTS and tower defense, and while it's often played like a turtle there's ways to speed through missions as well. Creeper World 3 is probably the best entry points in the series, or Particle Fleet: Emergence as a spaceship spin-off. A great comfy turtling series. Somehow it's had more entries than most RTS franchises ever manage and got its start long ago as Flash games.
One of the notable features of the series is the built-in map creation, sharing, and browsing tools with pretty powerful scripting. It's allowed for a wide variety of community maps that even introduce their own game modes. There's even a level generator for endless play, though it doesn't compare to the campaigns.
The custom maps people have made really keep me coming back to this series. As well as the normal tower defence maps there's puzzle games, maps where you play as the Creeper itself and paint the map, and in Creeper World 4 there's First Person Shooter maps because it finally went 3D. Definitely recommend giving the series a look if you haven't tried any of them before.
Have been playing the Tempest Rising Beta and its very good. Cannot wait for the 1.0 release.
It’s not that good is has very large design problems at the moment. They need like another 6 months to a year to figure things out (Intel).
What I don't like about Dino Lords is, that it won't be a classical RTS, but you play your lord and command your troops like in the Overlord games.
About Age or Respair...
They are using many many many assets of existing Stronghold games, like the quarry, grannary, church and especially the mill etc.
I would definitely include Sea Power, a game that recently entered early access. It's a super realistic tactical naval simulator set in the cold war. Sure, you "only" control a carrier group, but once a big NATO carrier deploys all its full complement of aircraft, there is more than enough going on. While the game is definitely early in its early access phase, battles get very tense.
I’m still waiting for a true successor to the original Star Trek Armada, I just want a space game without the use of full 3D maps, just give me a top down view and let me smash fleets of ships into each other.
I was hoping any of those space RTS games were gonna be it. Doesn't look that way, though. 🙁
Isn't that what Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is? Or even Sins 1 for that matter.
I was not expecting to see Creeper World on here. I thought the series was done for some reason
The problem with the new homeworld games that look great is customization, I mean, we don't have time for this in an RTS, I barely have time to play and don't want to spend hours is customization, I want to have cool units creates by devs like any other RTS.
I think an RTS where you could predesign ships would be amazing. Then at high skill levels you could try to make modifications on the fly to counter opponents, I like the idea.
Same here
Seems like the genre is in its spiritual successor age.
Can we expect a broken arrow beta video, that is by far one of the best rts games ive played lol
I hope they would take a risk by making Age of Empires 5 set in the 1870s - 1970s era with the subtitle End of Empires, fulfilling the one concept art they had when the original 3 was in development. This era would demand a different gameplay from 2, 3, and 4, so it wouldn't necessarily compete with themselves.
That concept art doesn't end with the twentieth century. There was meant to be an RTS set in the future as well, as per that art.
Pretty impressive list for a genre that has been dormant for years until recently...
Will any of those have enough success for the mainstream to notice though ? We'll see
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All i want from RTS is good tilesets for the ground
What about Front Edge, you can already try it(at least demo variant) in Russian VK Games. The game is playing pretty well now, so I think a release in the Q1 2025 is quite likely
On the one hand, medieval dino's look fun. On the other hand.. They make those walls look awfully weak
In the Tempest Rising Demo right now. It’s just not ready. There are just so many conflicting design issues right now. It needs another 6 months or a year to figure out what it wants to be.
Did they hint what the 3rd Faction is gonna be like? Or is that still a mistery?
NDA
@@commanderwookiecopc806 Interesting. So they're another human faction?
Not gonna lie, I thought the 3rd Faction was going to be an alien one, like the Scrin in C&C Tiberium Wars/Kane's Wrath.
@@MrDibara I said NDA as in Non-disclosure agreement
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Zerospace and Red Chaos weren't on my radar before, and that's why I love videos like these! Thanks Zade
DAWN OF WAR 4 PLEASE (DO NOT FUMBLE LIKE 3) OR JUST A REMASTER OF 1
Instead we get For War of Dawn, a mobile auto battler afk game using all your favourite GW characters as micro transactions.
You forgot Darfall, a strategy game with RPG hero mechanics
I hope some of these games have good single player/co op campaigns. I know many people like multiplayer but a good campaign is ESSENTIAL to a good RTS imo.
Most recent RTS i played was Terminator Dark fate and its campaign was hella fun .
Always glad to have these compilations to have a quick reference list for people who don't really explore upcoming titles! Thanks!
14:29 I've got a really good feeling that they will make a definitive edition of crusader too. From a pure speculative point of view, they have all the reasons to continue the trend :)
Am i the only one waiting for DOW4?
sure id like one but there's no real sign of it coming.
Have you seen Dawn of War 3 and Company of Heroes 3?
Yikes is all I can say.
I “demo”-ed CoH3 and uninstalled it after a few minutes. Had a truck with a MG like 5cm in front of infantry, the infantry took almost no damage…
They should’ve just been honest and made a mobile game, like they clearly wanted to.
"If I do say so myself" is often used to mitigate sounding arrogant. You can't say that about something you had no part in. It's the same thing with people dedicating songs they haven't written or performed to others... It sounds dumb.
You've never heard of Creeper World?! You need to fix that, it's one of the better Tower Defense franchises.
One I'm excited for is Kaiserpunk, coming early 2025. Looks like an ANNO style game with really in depth civilisation and economy gameplay, and the combat looks sick too
So, falling frontier kind of reminds me of Nexus: The Jupiter Incident based on the footage. Now there's a great game that I wish could have a followup. I backed the kickstarter for a sequel back in the day, but it never reached its goal.
2:07 - Ooh, it looks a bit like Warzone 2100 here! Now THERE'S a game that deserves a spiritual successor...
The last Warzone 2100-like released was Forged Battalion made by Petroglyph.
+10 reco and fav because of going straight into the video content. Great job lynx
Beyond All Reason is available now, very good rts, highly recommanded.
Thanks for this great list Mr RTS Guy. I already knew about plenty of the games still great to be reminded about what is comming up.
You've missed Silica. Rts/fps hybrid.
Dinolords looks awesome!!! Hanging out for it ...
Very nice list. Thanks for making it!
Long live RTS games.
Perfect soundtrack in the video.
Waiting to see how Dino Lords performs, been a while since Warparty we're seeing an actualy dinosaur RTS
Ah “cats who play” did Syrian Warfare. Pretty good modern RTS.
Please do an upcoming Turn based video. There’s several looking really good.
Thank you so much for the list in the description my guy!
I knew of a good few of them buts its always nice to see new ones or be reminded of the older ones on my wishlist. I always appreciate the AoE 1 music at the end it makes my memberberries happy.
On a side note i would like to see a 7th Legion and Ground Control remaster some day.
Your section on Eyes of War makes me curious if you've ever covered Executive Assault 1 & 2. Perhaps not masterpieces, I nonetheless think they've both done the "commander and soldier" thing pretty well.
Congrats for you getting sponsor! I just got line wars get my attention. I don't have enough time on it to give my impression but wroth a look :)
Awesome video! I'll have to check out some of these! You should do a video on Rise of Legends, I feel like no one talks about that one. Thanks for the shout out!
-Tank
Very nice. Thanks for the recommendations. 3 on the wishlist
front edge multiplayer already available in vkplay btw. the game itself is basically standalone dlc for terminator defiance
They plan on making it a f2p tho..
Nice War Thunder ad! If I hadn't already playing for 11 years, you would have convinced me to download it.
Thoughts on Line War ? Looks interesting.
I thought the guys who made ravenfield were working on a strategy game too?
A Total War Star Wars game ?
I never had any interest in any Total War games and have little interest with Star Wars but this ?
This might be the time I have an interest in the game. Hope to learn more soon..
Hyperwar looks very interesting.
I already bought the remake of warcraft 1. The new character models look great but the more i looked at the models in the dungeon maps the more they looked out of place. They added QOL improvements like selecting 12 units at one and being able to use the right mouse button.
But it's some little things they took away. The animations in the mission briefings, you saw the orc cleaning his blade or the wizard moving his moustache. Gone.
The 3D popup maps to represent every mission. Gone.
Always online connectivity to play. Sucks
Sorry Zade, i just needed to rant.
DORF is inspired by KK'n'D.
Would be interested in you reviewing Era One when it RTMs
What's the game at exactly 20:00?
Anyone?
Looks like a strongholds game of some kind
Any reason stormgate didn't make the list or worth an honorable mention or something?
Nice RTS's, but, I need more time to play...damn...
I personally wouldn't buy Industrial Annihilation after the forced upgrade deal they tried on steam (Edit: with Planetary Annihilation). Nothing like a paid patch in order to continue to receive updates.
Are any of these StarCraft style RTS games other than Zerospace? I played StarCraft 2 for probably 20,000 hours, getting Master rank with Terran was probably my proudest video game achievement, and I replay the campaign once every year or so. I'm so sad that Stormgate looks like it is just going to be more soulless live service slop, especially considering how great StarCraft 2 is. I'm starved for a StarCraft style RTS that is made by people that really love the genre and that specific style of RTS, but also want to inject some new ideas and ways to have fun into the game.
Thanks for sharing your video absolute amazing
battle aces already unalived itself in the beta btw.
IDUN also looks great
Falling Frontier is vapourware. 2021, 2022, no, 2023, wait, 2024 for sure. Ugh, 2025 now, trust us guys.
Fallen frontier is my choice so far
Beyond All Reason is king
i kinda like beyond all reason but theres alot of work they need to do for 1 thing the sound design isnt that good there are no unit move sounds or no unit vioceovers i feel supcom is still better
Taking a pass until I see the price points ratten reich is still a big let down. Also the story breakers being shown from betas from many of your titles is killing the buzz for me. Also the westwood cloning is getting old bro.
Make an isekai spin off of Dinolords
Have you seen or heard of Hyperwar?
9:22
Isnt this game just on the same engine as Red Alert 2?
why does that battlefall game look like brigador?
There is hope for Industrial Annihilation because this time around Nate Simpson and friends shouldn't be involved, hopefully he went on to finish #NonPlayer...
Have you heard of Echoes of the Architects? ^^'
Have you heard of Ratatan?
Shame Barkhan has gone silient
17:00 FF Tactics Remastered 😢
Warning: Dust front is made by a Russian for people that are careful with their dollars
I'll be honest...
With very few exceptions... it is feels stale.
It boils down to SC II, Command and Conquer, Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation copycats, with occasional Company of Heroes or Age of Empires or a space RTS thrown here and there.
And no... Adding "deck building" or "super power to shift the balance" is no innovation, it is a single mechanic more fitting a single game mode - a gimmick.
My guess is... most of those will fade into obscurity so fast we won't even notice many of their releases.
Also - I didn't delve into this TOO much, but I wonder how many of those will fall into "multiplayer focus" trap.
I will never buy anything from Blizzard anymore. I will be playing the original WC games on GOG and download whatever WCIII version I want. I will never touch the abomination that is Reforged.
Good list. But BAR is not an upcoming game.
The third playable faction LEGION is being developed.
The best? You are simply naming all games in production lol;p
Then the best ones are definitely in here.
@@saffral well played;p
i would love a video about era one
Ratten Reich was one of the worst Demos i ever playd i am not honst if they can safe it
no word about the new anno game?
the thumbnail is not very indicative of the content of the video. it’s a random white general. you should update it to attract more RTS fans.
I honestly don't like any of them. There's just no innovation. Most of them have goofy ass graphics too.
TW Star Wars is not needed hope they realize that ....
Ratten Reich is sadly all Style over substance. The Game is a sad excuse for a puzzle game that barely works. The Art Team focuses on creating Soft Porn of Rats with big Tits and overall the Idea of it is what carrys it. Look at the Models, the Artwork and read the lore. Dont. Play. The. "Game". Judging by what they achieved in literal years, it will take at least 4 more years for it to be considered a game worth any money.